“Star Wars” fans who have always dreamed of building their own R2-D2 or BB-8 will be able to pick their own parts off a moving conveyor belt and assemble a remote-controlled astromech droid from scratch when Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opens at Disneyland.

The build-your-own droid experience will take place in Droid Depot when the 14-acre land debuts May 31 at the Anaheim theme park.

The new Galaxy’s Edge themed land will be set in the Black Spire Outpost on the planet of Batuu, located on the outer rim of the “Star Wars” galaxy. Every shop and restaurant in the village will have an extensive backstory and proprietor from the “Star Wars” universe.

The Droid Depot shop will be run by a Utai proprietor named Mubo, a short, stubby alien creature with distended eyes.

Audio-animatronic droids will interact with visitors in front of the Droid Depot.

“It’s kind of reminiscent of the droids in ‘Episode IV’ outside the sandcrawler that were for sale,” Walt Disney Imagineering executive creative director Chris Beatty said during a tour of the shop. “These will look like droids that are for sale. You can come up and get your picture with them.”

Behind Mubo’s shop, another animatronic droid scene will be set up in an intimate courtyard.

“It’s just going to be stacked with droid pieces and parts,” Beatty said. “There are two animated droids back there. They will be getting an oil bath. They’re getting a little bit of refurbishment.”

Inside the shop, droid fans will enjoy exploring the props and animated show elements lining the walls and hanging from the ceiling.

“This shop will be polluted with droids that are full size,” Beatty said. “The whole back wall here is filled with astromechs and BB units. There’s an Imperial droid in here. There’s a medical droid. If you’re a fan of Star Wars droids, there’s a droid from almost every one of the franchise films. It’s going to be just chock full of fun characters that you know and love.”

Concept art of the Droid Depot shows BB-8 on an elevated platform with R5-D4, the “red” droid with a bad motivator that Luke Skywalker’s Uncle Owen almost purchases on Tatooine. R2-D2 can be seen near the horseshoe-shaped build station. Droids line the shelves along the walls in various states of disrepair. Overhead beneath a skylight, protocol droid parts move along a dry cleaner-like conveyor system.

Builders can choose to make one of two models in the build-your-own droid experience: An R-series astromech droid like R2-D2 or a ball-shaped BB-series unit similar to BB-8.

1. Pick parts: “There’s a conveyor belt here running against the back wall,” Beatty said. “You pick up your droid parts, walk over to one of the build stations and assemble your droid.”

2. Assemble: Builders will use a mechanical screwdriver to assemble the droid parts. An information guide spells out the build steps. Each of the droid panels and pieces can be customized.

3. Add personality: Builders select a personality circuit at the sound chip station. Each droid’s personality can be changed in just a few seconds by switching out the chips.

4. Activate: “When you’re done, there will be an activation station that you will plug your droid into to power it up,” Beatty said. “It does a diagnostic check and then your droid will be brought to life for the very first time.”

The droid-building experience will be different for each builder, Beatty said.

“We expect some people to come in and they’re like, ‘I know exactly what I want my droid to look like,’” Beatty said. “They’re going to pick their parts and go over and build. Be really great at building it, bring it to life and walk out.”

But there’s no time limit. You can take as long as you want to build your personalized droid.

“We’ll have other guests that may come in and go, ‘You know what I really want? I want to play a little bit. Change the head a couple of different times. Really create something crazy and wild,’” Beatty said.

Once you’re done, your remote-controlled mini-droid will communicate with full-sized units found throughout the land. Beaconing technology will allow the custom-built droids to interact with and react to signals in Disneyland’s “Star Wars” village.

“That droid that you just constructed, that droid’s your new friend,” said Disney World merchandise strategy director Brad Schoeneberg. “It knows a lot about Black Spire Outpost. It can sense the land and understands encounters that you are experiencing. In the land, your droid will be able to react to many of the same experiences that you are having.”

Droid Depot will also sell pre-built droids and collectibles made from droid parts.

Disney is building nearly identical versions of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in California and Florida. The new themed land debuts Aug. 29 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios near Orlando.

Brady MacDonald is a freelance writer based in California. He’s covered the theme park industry for more than 25 years. He writes about travel, entertainment, business, food and beer. His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, New York Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, Seattle Times, Orlando Sentinel and Orange County Register.